More than half of the world’s people live in cities. One in three city dwellers in low- and middle-income countries live in informal settlements (sometimes known as slums) and face the challenges of ill-health, inequity and insecurity. People living and working in informal settlements face a range of physical and mental health risks and they […]
Since 1992, the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) has been annually observed on 3 December around the world. The theme for this year’s IDPD is “Empowering persons with disabilities and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”. This theme focuses on the empowering persons with disabilities for the inclusive, equitable and sustainable development envisaged […]
The USAID SQALE Community Health Services Program (SQALE) is a three-year program that began in March 2016. SQALE’s goal is to reduce maternal and child deaths in Kenyan communities via Quality Improvement (QI) of community health services. SQALE is currently being implemented in 50 community units in 9 sub-counties in Kitui, Migori and Nairobi Counties. […]
From Sunday, 25th November, we mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, which is an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day. It was initiated in 1991 […]
LVCT Health will be at the 3rd HIV Research for prevention (HIVR4P) conference in Madrid, Spain; 21-25 October 2018. The global scientific conference focuses exclusively on the challenging and fast-growing field of biomedical HIV prevention research. HIVR4P supports cross-fertilization among research on HIV vaccines, microbicides, PrEP, treatment as prevention, and other biomedical prevention approaches, while […]
In May, we partnered with the Kisumu County to launch the Naselica Centre of Excellence (CoE), the colourful event was graced by Dr. Mathew Owili, the Deputy Governor Kisumu County. The CoE has proved its status by attracting a host of guests from all over the world for learning and sharing experiences on Key populations […]
On Friday September 21, 2018, LVCT Health was honoured at the annual Employer of the Year Awards (EYA) 2018 dinner at the Radisson Blue Hotel, Nairobi, in the category of; Inclusiveness and Diversity. The Employer of the Year Awards (EYA) – http://eya-kenya.org/ is an initiative by the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE) that provides a […]
“As players in the HIV sector we have been talking about the integration of HIV and violence services for quite too long, but we now need to move from conversations to action.” Remarked Dr. Wanjiru Mukoma during the #GBVHIVintegration satellite session at the NASCOP organised HIV conference. This conference brought together over one hundred stakeholders […]
LVCT Health will be participating at the 2018 HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment Scientific Conference to be held from the 9th to 12th of September in Nairobi. The theme of this year’s conference is “TURNING THE TIDE; preventing new HIV infections and optimizing treatment outcomes”. The biennial conference is convened by the National AIDS & STI […]
DREAMS girls form Kibagare having fun during an Open forum held St. Anthony in Kibagare “I have seen girls transformed from desperation to confident and hopeful individuals living an independent life. When we started working in this community there were so many cases of girls being lured to sex work, girls would be sexually abused […]
